You really think that Al Qadea or the Tamil Tigers or the Chechen Rebels really keep up to date on the latest and greatest tools from Google? I doubt it, Al Qadea for instance does have somethings togeather it sounds like on the IT front, but I bet these folks don't keep up to date on what's coming out from Google Labs unless the media tells them.
Nonsense, Judges read briefs from normal folks when they represent themselves in the US and the UK. Remeber that in September 1990, McDonald's sued Dave Morris and Helen Steel, activists with London Greenpeace, for producing and distributing a leaflet titled "What's Wrong With McDonald's." McDonalds went after them, they represented themselves and it went around and around but they won.
Furthermore, in the United States, you have a Right to self representation, any Judge who would refuse to read a brief from someone self representing would be overturned on appeal, something no Judge wants.
More recently, the Supreme Court has expounded the right to represent oneself, holding first in Faretta v. California 422 U.S. 806 (1975) that the power to choose or waive council lies with the accused, and the state can not intrude, even as it later held Gidinez v. Moran, 509 U.S. 389 (1993) if the state believed the accused less than fully competant to adequately proceed without council. The circuit courts have narrowed the right to exclude appeal procedures as in Martinez v. California Court of Appeals 528 U.S. 152, 163 (2000), and again by reference in US v. Moussaoui (4th Cir. 2003) (No. 03-4162); however, this restriction is new, inconsistent with precedent, and has yet to be tested in the Supreme Court.
After the invasion of Afghanistan the US and NATO forces would come across documents in regards to Al Qadea and the Taliban's attempts to create Chemical Weapon systems. In some of the memos were comments along the line of "...the Western Media has reported that nerve agents are easy to create and deliver so we should make them."
In a way, all of this talking about Google Earth is going to do more to get Google Earth known by the terrorist and military operators who could get an advantage from them. For all of the big military players out there (US, NATO, EU, Russian Federation, China, Japan, Israel, RoK) they have much better imagry than what Google Earth offers. The lower end terrorist groups and seperatists as going to hear about Google Earth not from thier IT people, if they have them, but from the Media.
If Google Earth was out there without the Media going - Look it shows all the ingress and egress routes for an Assassination of the President of India at his house! - the people that might use Google Earth for this likely wouldn't know it was out there.
Actually, the short form of American seems to be "Yank", you know the word used in the UK, Ireland and Australia in a fairly derogatory manner to refer to Americans.
As soon as the Brits stop using Yank, I'll stop using Brit.
Calling someone from the United Kingdom's main island, Great Britain, a Brit is like calling someone from the United States of America an American.
You want to be called by your State name, English or other, then let us know where you are from and please ask everyone from the United States of America what State, Commonwealth, Protectorate, District, Indian Reservation, Incorporated Territory or Unincorperated Territory they are from and refer to us properly too. I'm a South Dakotan from the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.
The conditions between the United States following the attacks in 2001 and Germany following the First World War have nothing at all in common. Germany was suffering under war reperations, a crushed economy, terrible currency swings, a defeatest attitude, social strife between political parties and just out and out crappy conditions everywhere.
The United States was on the verge of a recession, then airplanes flew into buildings, rather than a defeatest attitude, the US had a desire for some payback, not only for 9-11-01, but for the USS Cole, the African Embassy Bombings, Day of the Rangers, etc.
Hitler rose to power with a fringe group that played on the German People's defeat/non-defeat in the First World War, a feeling of desperation and hope for a better economic and military future. Pointing a finger at the Communists and Jews worked in German politics of the time. Bush rose to power because of his name, the money of the Republican Party, the events of the 2000 election are well known, nothing in the rise to power of Hitler and Bush have anything in common. The German situation 1919-1933 has nothing at all in common with the American situation 1991-2005.
Huh, well what exactly has G.W. Bush done that is "all too reminiscent of some of Hitler's actions?" Annexed a country? Nope Annexed a county and gotten the British and French to accept this annexation with a "peace in our time" speech by the British PM? Nope. Started a massive public works project and mandated that all workers work with little ability to quit thier jobs or change jobs? Nope. Started a massive eugenics project, mandated the sterilization of the weak, infirm and/or mentally disabled? Nope Started a massive buildup of the Army, Air Force, Navy including the development of a Political Military branch? Nope Invaded a neighboring country while constructing a treaty with the Soviet Union or Russia in regards to spliting this country up? Nope Take all the Jews and throw them in Ghettos after taking thier property and ultimately constructing an assembly line system to kill 6 million Jews and 5-7 million other peoples? Nope Create a slave labor system to build defensive and offensive systems, infrastructure, natural resources, equipment and instillations? Nope
While it might be fun and easy to compare G.W. Bush to Hitler, it's not at all accurate.
Well, I found firm numbers on the number of deaths, where are the numbers or even a source for "People with guns that want to kill you ARE going to kill you most of the time, even if you also have a gun." As for "People driving drunk don't (99% of the time anyway) want to kill anyone", that is like saying "People who play Russian Roulete with a revolver don't (99% of the time anyway) want to kill themselves nor are they stupid".
"Heat of the moment crimes, such as one spouse murdering their cheating spouse when they find out about an affair, are unquestionably reduced when guns are hard to come by for the average citizen."
The number of Right To Carry Firearms (RTC) states is at an all-time high, up from 10 in 1987 to 38 today.States with RTC laws, compared to other states, had lower violent crime rates on average with total violent crime was lower by 21%, murder by 28%, robbery by 43%, and aggravated assault by 13%.
Furthermore, the number of firearms in the United States and the number of gunowners are increasing, but the number of firearms related deaths is decreasing.
"Data in this report regarding trends in firearm-related injury rates during 1993--1998 indicate that both mortality and morbidity from gunshot wounds declined substantially in the United States. However, firearm-related injury continues to be a public health concern accounting for approximately 31,000 deaths and 64,500 nonfatal injuries treated in hospital EDs in 1998."
And you can get a driver's licence as young as 14 in some States. In the United States in 2001 there were the following numbers of deaths from firearms Suicide 16,869, Homicide 11,348; Accident 802; Legal Intervention 323; Undetermined 231. The same year there were 37,500 fatal auto accidents.
Taking out Suicide from firearms, since a suicidal person is going to end it anyway they can, I reckon that driving and alcohol are both more dangerous than guns.
Buying a gun. I will generalize it for you, it varies State to State, I am familiar with South Dakota and Oregon.
If you are buying a Long-Gun (Rifle, Carbine, Shotgun) an individual 18 years of age or older may purchase a rifle or shotgun from a federally licensed dealer in any state with a Federal Background Check. Sale of a firearm by a federally licensed dealer must be documented by a Federal Form 4473, which identifies and includes other information about the purchaser, and records the make, model, and serial number of the firearm. Sales to an individual of multiple handguns within a five-day period require dealer notification to the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Some States have thier own background checks, limitations and waiting periods. Also, you can randomly have your purchase halted for a waiting period while the Feds check on you, or have it canceled.
Now, I can transport Long-Guns on the airlines in a proper box or case with the proper forms filled out. Pistols are harder to move about, but it's still legally possible. Note, there are also various laws on carrying weapons on your person, the Right to Carry and the rights about transporting firearms in your vehicle from State to State.
No, there were alternatives to the problem systems like the tiles, foam and SRB joints that caused the lost Shuttles. The cutbacks are 90% of the problem.
Should we have stuck with Saturn? Yea, in hindsight we should have, but in 1972 this looked better.
As for German "drawing board" technologies, it's a bunch of conjecture, besides, since the Americans and Soviets got all that "drawing board" technology and most of the Scientists, if it worked, it would have been developed. Shuttle didn't set back the US Space Program, the recession of the 1970s and 1980s and a lack of interest in Congress set back the United States.
Power and heat are factors. The electrical system of the Hummer will be taxed with the radios, sat comms, laptops and electrical systems for things like TOW launchers. You idle in 120 degree heat with the AC on, you'll overheat the Hummer.
American soldiers have never gone "native" while in the Service. Look at the American soldiers on the Great Plains, Southwest, Philippines, Hawaii, Panama or Haiti. They don't change uniforms, they don't adapt local uniforms nor local equipment.
The Americans who "drift" out of command will end up rotating to the United States, maybe one in ten thousand will end up in Iraq with the locals.
My little footnote wasn't about being able to criticize them based on "race". It's more about the fact that I have years of first hand and first person knowledge of how a Reservation's government works in this day and age. Now if I'd said I was from a Reservation, I might have been White living there and by that a Racist. Now if I'd said Reservations and Tribal Governments were corrupt, since the vast majority of Americans aren't Indian, people would assume I wasn't Indian and I'd by a Racist.
The fact that one is an Indian or has lived on a Reservation IS relevant since the vast majority of Americans and Canadians don't live on Reservations, haven't come into contact with American Indians and/or hasn't the faintest idea how a Tribal Government works.
By being 100% about Sharing, it's about trading files and data that belong to someone else without paying for it, pure and simple. If the P2P sites spent the majority of thier bandwidth sharing non-copyrighted materials, then your argument would be a little more sound. However I've been on supernova and I've downloaded from bittorrent and I'd reckon about 90% of the links were for copyrighted films, music and software.
"In my opinion, its far more important that everyone has free easy access to content then to line the pockets of the very rich." That's based on what? The UN Decleration of Human Rights? The Bill of Rights? What? And what about the people who publish software or a book and aren't "Very Rich"?
Storytelling has been a part of human culture for a very long time, we don't know if it's since the dawn of man, but whatever. That said, Artists have been paid for thier work and commissioned for thier works for thousands of years. Sophocles to Bach to Riefenstahl to Lucas have all be paid or commissioned for thier pieces.
As for being racist, if one points out a political issue or weakness, then they are racists? So by that, anyone Black who says Al Sharpton is a demagogue or anyone in the United States who says G.W. Bush invaded Iraq illegally is a racist by your measure. In short, everyone is racist by your definition.
Ending the Confederacy by marching through Georgia, the Carolinas and then into Virgina outweighs anything Sherman said or did in the Indian Wars after 1865.
Also, I'm not "of Native Blood", I'm an American with American Indian ancestors, along with German and Irish.
Because Corporations are always getting Merc and Terrorists to stop things they don't like. For example the MercCo raid on Shanghi Windows XP pirates in '02 that resulted in...
Actually they don't, and the United States Government really doesn't do much militarily to protect corporate interests these days, not like the Fruit company fun in the 20th century. Yea, War for Oil, War for Kosovo's Tin, the geopolitical ramifications of the US and/or NATO going to war are much larger than Corporate Interests these days.
However, if a Nation-State has a relationship with the United States, there will be treaties and frameworks usually that'll help shut this stuff down. Plus, your ISPs could just block thier domain names.
That all said, if you are really intent on pirating other people's property, and it's not about "Sharing", come on, it's about gettng crap for free, look at Indian Reservations in the United States. The legal issues between a Reservation, County, State and the Federal Governments are a goddamned mess. Plus, theres a whole lot of corruption so with some cash, you might get a Rez to go for this model.*
* - I'm Indian and from a Reservation and have known a fair share of Tribal Council and Chairpeople over the years that I can say they are corrupt for the most part without being a Troll or a Flamer.
Because We ran into social expenses taking away from space expenses, then we had a terrible recession coupled with hostile political leaders like Senator and later Vice-President Mondale.
We've also sent probes sucessfully to Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus and we've had three rovers on Mars, two of which worked much better than expected. Now we are sending a probe to Pluto.
The Shuttle has been a problem, and that can be traced to the programs cuts and compromises from the 1970s, but it's also been a valuable tool, the first Bush and Clinton Administrations dropped the ball on a replacement and thats why right now we have a problem with Manned Spaceflight.
Umm, yea, I've used Mac OS since 1990, on a G5 right now with an iBook, Xserve, Powerbook and iMac in the house, did the public beta of OS X, used NextSTEP and OS X Server 1.2, supported Macintoshes as desktops and servers since the mid-90s, etc.
Ehh, it's not changed drastically from a use standpoint. It looks shiny, but it's very similar. Apple menu is there, the hard disk is on the desktop, volumes mount on the desktop, you can have desktop printers, what has changed?
We have the Dock. Feature or a Bug, that's for people to fight about, I like it. Dashboard...we have an intergrated Widgets/Small Application Launcher...woohoo...yea that isn't that revolutionary. Intergrated Column Browsing is an option, one that is off by default, not that big of deal. Expose is nothing revolutionary, it's just another set of OS interface options.
In all, the OS is not that much different than it was in 1995, someone from System 7.5 could come and be using OS 10.4 as soon as you pointed out the icons on the Desktop or the Dock. Nothing Revolutionary.
I remember reading about "where interfaces will be in 5 or 10 years..." I also remember playing with those Apple demos of desktop and browser technologies from '96-'97.
Where are we now with Windows and Mac OS? Just refinements of what works or doesn't work from 10 years ago. In 2015 we'll be having the same articles and little will have changed.
"Yeah, but the mantle is mostly liquid, right? So we should be able to dump a capsule with measuring equipment on it and wait for it to "sink"'
No, it's mostly solid rock, mantle rock consists of olivines, mantle rocks also possesses a higher portion of iron and magnesium and a smaller portion of silicon and aluminium than the crust. In the mantle, temperatures range between 100C at the upper boundary to over 3,500C at the boundary with the core. Although these temperatures far exceed the melting points of the mantle rocks at the surface, particularly in deeper ranges, they are almost exclusively solid. The enormous pressure exerted on the mantle prevents them from melting.
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You really think that Al Qadea or the Tamil Tigers or the Chechen Rebels really keep up to date on the latest and greatest tools from Google? I doubt it, Al Qadea for instance does have somethings togeather it sounds like on the IT front, but I bet these folks don't keep up to date on what's coming out from Google Labs unless the media tells them.
Nonsense, Judges read briefs from normal folks when they represent themselves in the US and the UK. Remeber that in September 1990, McDonald's sued Dave Morris and Helen Steel, activists with London Greenpeace, for producing and distributing a leaflet titled "What's Wrong With McDonald's." McDonalds went after them, they represented themselves and it went around and around but they won.
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http://www.organicconsumers.org/politics/mclibel2
Furthermore, in the United States, you have a Right to self representation, any Judge who would refuse to read a brief from someone self representing would be overturned on appeal, something no Judge wants.
More recently, the Supreme Court has expounded the right to represent oneself, holding first in Faretta v. California 422 U.S. 806 (1975) that the power to choose or waive council lies with the accused, and the state can not intrude, even as it later held Gidinez v. Moran, 509 U.S. 389 (1993) if the state believed the accused less than fully competant to adequately proceed without council.
The circuit courts have narrowed the right to exclude appeal procedures as in Martinez v. California Court of Appeals 528 U.S. 152, 163 (2000), and again by reference in US v. Moussaoui (4th Cir. 2003) (No. 03-4162); however, this restriction is new, inconsistent with precedent, and has yet to be tested in the Supreme Court.
After the invasion of Afghanistan the US and NATO forces would come across documents in regards to Al Qadea and the Taliban's attempts to create Chemical Weapon systems. In some of the memos were comments along the line of "...the Western Media has reported that nerve agents are easy to create and deliver so we should make them."
In a way, all of this talking about Google Earth is going to do more to get Google Earth known by the terrorist and military operators who could get an advantage from them. For all of the big military players out there (US, NATO, EU, Russian Federation, China, Japan, Israel, RoK) they have much better imagry than what Google Earth offers. The lower end terrorist groups and seperatists as going to hear about Google Earth not from thier IT people, if they have them, but from the Media.
If Google Earth was out there without the Media going - Look it shows all the ingress and egress routes for an Assassination of the President of India at his house! - the people that might use Google Earth for this likely wouldn't know it was out there.
Actually, the short form of American seems to be "Yank", you know the word used in the UK, Ireland and Australia in a fairly derogatory manner to refer to Americans.
As soon as the Brits stop using Yank, I'll stop using Brit.
"'Britain' isn't a country", really?
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Huh, conventional long form: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; note - Great Britain includes England, Scotland, and Wales http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos
http://www.visitbritain.com/default.aspx
Calling someone from the United Kingdom's main island, Great Britain, a Brit is like calling someone from the United States of America an American.
You want to be called by your State name, English or other, then let us know where you are from and please ask everyone from the United States of America what State, Commonwealth, Protectorate, District, Indian Reservation, Incorporated Territory or Unincorperated Territory they are from and refer to us properly too. I'm a South Dakotan from the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.
The conditions between the United States following the attacks in 2001 and Germany following the First World War have nothing at all in common.
Germany was suffering under war reperations, a crushed economy, terrible currency swings, a defeatest attitude, social strife between political parties and just out and out crappy conditions everywhere.
The United States was on the verge of a recession, then airplanes flew into buildings, rather than a defeatest attitude, the US had a desire for some payback, not only for 9-11-01, but for the USS Cole, the African Embassy Bombings, Day of the Rangers, etc.
Hitler rose to power with a fringe group that played on the German People's defeat/non-defeat in the First World War, a feeling of desperation and hope for a better economic and military future. Pointing a finger at the Communists and Jews worked in German politics of the time. Bush rose to power because of his name, the money of the Republican Party, the events of the 2000 election are well known, nothing in the rise to power of Hitler and Bush have anything in common. The German situation 1919-1933 has nothing at all in common with the American situation 1991-2005.
Huh, well what exactly has G.W. Bush done that is "all too reminiscent of some of Hitler's actions?"
Annexed a country? Nope
Annexed a county and gotten the British and French to accept this annexation with a "peace in our time" speech by the British PM? Nope.
Started a massive public works project and mandated that all workers work with little ability to quit thier jobs or change jobs? Nope.
Started a massive eugenics project, mandated the sterilization of the weak, infirm and/or mentally disabled? Nope
Started a massive buildup of the Army, Air Force, Navy including the development of a Political Military branch? Nope
Invaded a neighboring country while constructing a treaty with the Soviet Union or Russia in regards to spliting this country up? Nope
Take all the Jews and throw them in Ghettos after taking thier property and ultimately constructing an assembly line system to kill 6 million Jews and 5-7 million other peoples? Nope
Create a slave labor system to build defensive and offensive systems, infrastructure, natural resources, equipment and instillations? Nope
While it might be fun and easy to compare G.W. Bush to Hitler, it's not at all accurate.
What bugs are you refering too with 10.4 on PPC? I've got 4 machines here that run very stably on 10.4 and have since the day it shipped.
Uhhh. Powermacs don't use G4s anymore. Nor do the iMacs.
Both of those lines use the IBM 64bit G5 chip.
Well, I found firm numbers on the number of deaths, where are the numbers or even a source for "People with guns that want to kill you ARE going to kill you most of the time, even if you also have a gun." As for "People driving drunk don't (99% of the time anyway) want to kill anyone", that is like saying "People who play Russian Roulete with a revolver don't (99% of the time anyway) want to kill themselves nor are they stupid".
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"Heat of the moment crimes, such as one spouse murdering their cheating spouse when they find out about an affair, are unquestionably reduced when guns are hard to come by for the average citizen."
The number of Right To Carry Firearms (RTC) states is at an all-time high, up from 10 in 1987 to 38 today.States with RTC laws, compared to other states, had lower violent crime rates on average with total violent crime was lower by 21%, murder by 28%, robbery by 43%, and aggravated assault by 13%.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm#cius
http://www.nraila.org/Issues/factsheets/read.aspx
Furthermore, the number of firearms in the United States and the number of gunowners are increasing, but the number of firearms related deaths is decreasing.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5002a1
"Data in this report regarding trends in firearm-related injury rates during 1993--1998 indicate that both mortality and morbidity from gunshot wounds declined substantially in the United States. However, firearm-related injury continues to be a public health concern accounting for approximately 31,000 deaths and 64,500 nonfatal injuries treated in hospital EDs in 1998."
And you can get a driver's licence as young as 14 in some States. In the United States in 2001 there were the following numbers of deaths from firearms Suicide 16,869, Homicide 11,348; Accident 802; Legal Intervention 323; Undetermined 231. The same year there were 37,500 fatal auto accidents.
http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/
Alcohol-induced deaths, excluding accidents and homicides: 19,928, Alcoholic liver disease: 12,121
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/alcohol.htm
Taking out Suicide from firearms, since a suicidal person is going to end it anyway they can, I reckon that driving and alcohol are both more dangerous than guns.
Buying a gun. I will generalize it for you, it varies State to State, I am familiar with South Dakota and Oregon.
If you are buying a Long-Gun (Rifle, Carbine, Shotgun) an individual 18 years of age or older may purchase a rifle or shotgun from a federally licensed dealer in any state with a Federal Background Check. Sale of a firearm by a federally licensed dealer must be documented by a Federal Form 4473, which identifies and includes other information about the purchaser, and records the make, model, and serial number of the firearm. Sales to an individual of multiple handguns within a five-day period require dealer notification to the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Some States have thier own background checks, limitations and waiting periods. Also, you can randomly have your purchase halted for a waiting period while the Feds check on you, or have it canceled.
If you want to know about the State or local laws, find a State and go to town.
http://www.nraila.org//gunlaws/Default.aspx
Now, I can transport Long-Guns on the airlines in a proper box or case with the proper forms filled out. Pistols are harder to move about, but it's still legally possible. Note, there are also various laws on carrying weapons on your person, the Right to Carry and the rights about transporting firearms in your vehicle from State to State.
He'd be the 1 in a 1000 that go native. Actually the number was likely closer to 1 in 2 or 3000 I'd expect.
No, there were alternatives to the problem systems like the tiles, foam and SRB joints that caused the lost Shuttles. The cutbacks are 90% of the problem.
Should we have stuck with Saturn? Yea, in hindsight we should have, but in 1972 this looked better.
As for German "drawing board" technologies, it's a bunch of conjecture, besides, since the Americans and Soviets got all that "drawing board" technology and most of the Scientists, if it worked, it would have been developed. Shuttle didn't set back the US Space Program, the recession of the 1970s and 1980s and a lack of interest in Congress set back the United States.
Power and heat are factors. The electrical system of the Hummer will be taxed with the radios, sat comms, laptops and electrical systems for things like TOW launchers. You idle in 120 degree heat with the AC on, you'll overheat the Hummer.
Doubtful.
American soldiers have never gone "native" while in the Service. Look at the American soldiers on the Great Plains, Southwest, Philippines, Hawaii, Panama or Haiti. They don't change uniforms, they don't adapt local uniforms nor local equipment.
The Americans who "drift" out of command will end up rotating to the United States, maybe one in ten thousand will end up in Iraq with the locals.
My little footnote wasn't about being able to criticize them based on "race". It's more about the fact that I have years of first hand and first person knowledge of how a Reservation's government works in this day and age. Now if I'd said I was from a Reservation, I might have been White living there and by that a Racist. Now if I'd said Reservations and Tribal Governments were corrupt, since the vast majority of Americans aren't Indian, people would assume I wasn't Indian and I'd by a Racist.
The fact that one is an Indian or has lived on a Reservation IS relevant since the vast majority of Americans and Canadians don't live on Reservations, haven't come into contact with American Indians and/or hasn't the faintest idea how a Tribal Government works.
By being 100% about Sharing, it's about trading files and data that belong to someone else without paying for it, pure and simple. If the P2P sites spent the majority of thier bandwidth sharing non-copyrighted materials, then your argument would be a little more sound. However I've been on supernova and I've downloaded from bittorrent and I'd reckon about 90% of the links were for copyrighted films, music and software.
"In my opinion, its far more important that everyone has free easy access to content then to line the pockets of the very rich." That's based on what? The UN Decleration of Human Rights? The Bill of Rights? What? And what about the people who publish software or a book and aren't "Very Rich"?
Storytelling has been a part of human culture for a very long time, we don't know if it's since the dawn of man, but whatever. That said, Artists have been paid for thier work and commissioned for thier works for thousands of years. Sophocles to Bach to Riefenstahl to Lucas have all be paid or commissioned for thier pieces.
As for being racist, if one points out a political issue or weakness, then they are racists? So by that, anyone Black who says Al Sharpton is a demagogue or anyone in the United States who says G.W. Bush invaded Iraq illegally is a racist by your measure. In short, everyone is racist by your definition.
Ending the Confederacy by marching through Georgia, the Carolinas and then into Virgina outweighs anything Sherman said or did in the Indian Wars after 1865.
Also, I'm not "of Native Blood", I'm an American with American Indian ancestors, along with German and Irish.
Because Corporations are always getting Merc and Terrorists to stop things they don't like. For example the MercCo raid on Shanghi Windows XP pirates in '02 that resulted in...
Actually they don't, and the United States Government really doesn't do much militarily to protect corporate interests these days, not like the Fruit company fun in the 20th century. Yea, War for Oil, War for Kosovo's Tin, the geopolitical ramifications of the US and/or NATO going to war are much larger than Corporate Interests these days.
However, if a Nation-State has a relationship with the United States, there will be treaties and frameworks usually that'll help shut this stuff down. Plus, your ISPs could just block thier domain names.
That all said, if you are really intent on pirating other people's property, and it's not about "Sharing", come on, it's about gettng crap for free, look at Indian Reservations in the United States. The legal issues between a Reservation, County, State and the Federal Governments are a goddamned mess. Plus, theres a whole lot of corruption so with some cash, you might get a Rez to go for this model.*
* - I'm Indian and from a Reservation and have known a fair share of Tribal Council and Chairpeople over the years that I can say they are corrupt for the most part without being a Troll or a Flamer.
Because We ran into social expenses taking away from space expenses, then we had a terrible recession coupled with hostile political leaders like Senator and later Vice-President Mondale.
We've also sent probes sucessfully to Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus and we've had three rovers on Mars, two of which worked much better than expected. Now we are sending a probe to Pluto.
The Shuttle has been a problem, and that can be traced to the programs cuts and compromises from the 1970s, but it's also been a valuable tool, the first Bush and Clinton Administrations dropped the ball on a replacement and thats why right now we have a problem with Manned Spaceflight.
Check this stuff out...
http://www.theinvisibleshield.com/
Works like a charm on my Nano.
Umm, yea, I've used Mac OS since 1990, on a G5 right now with an iBook, Xserve, Powerbook and iMac in the house, did the public beta of OS X, used NextSTEP and OS X Server 1.2, supported Macintoshes as desktops and servers since the mid-90s, etc.
Ehh, it's not changed drastically from a use standpoint. It looks shiny, but it's very similar. Apple menu is there, the hard disk is on the desktop, volumes mount on the desktop, you can have desktop printers, what has changed?
We have the Dock. Feature or a Bug, that's for people to fight about, I like it. Dashboard...we have an intergrated Widgets/Small Application Launcher...woohoo...yea that isn't that revolutionary. Intergrated Column Browsing is an option, one that is off by default, not that big of deal. Expose is nothing revolutionary, it's just another set of OS interface options.
In all, the OS is not that much different than it was in 1995, someone from System 7.5 could come and be using OS 10.4 as soon as you pointed out the icons on the Desktop or the Dock. Nothing Revolutionary.
I remember reading about "where interfaces will be in 5 or 10 years..." I also remember playing with those Apple demos of desktop and browser technologies from '96-'97.
Where are we now with Windows and Mac OS? Just refinements of what works or doesn't work from 10 years ago. In 2015 we'll be having the same articles and little will have changed.
"Yeah, but the mantle is mostly liquid, right? So we should be able to dump a capsule with measuring equipment on it and wait for it to "sink"'
No, it's mostly solid rock, mantle rock consists of olivines, mantle rocks also possesses a higher portion of iron and magnesium and a smaller portion of silicon and aluminium than the crust. In the mantle, temperatures range between 100C at the upper boundary to over 3,500C at the boundary with the core. Although these temperatures far exceed the melting points of the mantle rocks at the surface, particularly in deeper ranges, they are almost exclusively solid. The enormous pressure exerted on the mantle prevents them from melting.